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Internally Displaced Persons in Gubio road camp Sunday evening staged a protest in the camp. They alleged that they had not been provided with food for more than three weeks. Daily Post reports that the action became violent until arrests were made by security operatives. An IDP, Bafu Goni...

Four Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, in Dalori-1 Camp of Maiduguri, Borno State, were reportedly beheaded by the Boko Haram sect on Saturday. The four victims, whose bodies were found some few kilometres from the Dalori camp along the Maiduguri-Bama road, were on Sunday buried by their...

The Borno State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) says 30,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who fled the state at the peak of the Boko Haram insurgency have returned home. Malam Abdullahi Umar, the Spokesman of the agency, said in a statement issued in Maiduguri on Wednesday that the...

The Borno command of the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it arrested 19 Internally Displaced Persons(IDPs) for alleged drug abuse and sale in camps. The Commandant of the NDLEA, Mr Ona Ogilegwu, a lawyer, stated this in an interview in Maiduguri. He said the suspects were...

Facebook user, Yaga Allen claims that some IDPs at Teachers Village IDP camp in Borno state, were given these spoilt beans to cook and eat yesterday. According to him, the IDPs were given the spoilt beans on Wednesday and Thursday. Decayed and moulded beans are likely contaminated with...

Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima has asked for the immediate prosecution of those arrested for diversion of bags of rice meant for internally displaced persons in the state. The directive was contained in a statement issued by the spokesman of the governor, Mallam Isa Gusau. In...

The Executive Secretary, Borno State Agency for the Control of AIDS, Barkindo Saidu, has revealed that 512 new cases of HIV infection have been recorded in Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps in Maiduguri, the Borno state capital. Barkindo made the revelation on Sunday, in Maiduguri...

Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Konduga Local Government of Borno State have returned home after about three years of residing in refugee camps in Maiduguri. Governor Kashim Shettima urged them to be law abiding while at home. He added that the action was aimed at allowing the IDPs...

The Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Borno Command, said it had arrested two men for allegedly selling cocaine in the Internally Displaced Persons’ camp in Dikwa. The Commander of the Borno Command, Mr Ona Ogilegwu, said in Maiduguri on Sunday that one the suspects disguised himself...

The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps in Borno State, yesterday, arrested a man for allegedly defrauding Internally Displaced Persons in the state to the tune of N2.7m. The Corps State Commandant, Alhaji Abdullahi Ibrahim, said the suspect was arrested while selling fake forms to some...